worshipped at the temple and continued to obey the Law. But Paul saw, as Stephen saw, that the old and the new were incompatible; man was saved either by the temple sacrifices and obedience to the Law, or by faith in Jesus. The old must destroy the new, or be destroyed. Paul dedicated himself to demolishing Stephen’s argument by the time-honored method of public debate. The synagogue benches were filled; the elders listened gravely. Paul and his supporters argued from the Law that since Jesus had been